Hog-cholera remedy



, NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT A. WILSON, OF BLUE SPRINGS, NEBRASKA.

HOG-CHOLERA REMEDY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,615, dated September 22, 1885. Application filed August 5, 1885. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. \VILSON, of Blue Springs, Gage county, Nebraska, have invented an Improved Compound for Preventing Hog-Cholera, of which the following is a specification.

My improved compound is designed for preventing hog-cholera rather than for curing it. It consists of the following ingredients in about the proportions stated: Tobacco, two pounds; senna, one-half pound; worm-seed, one-half pound; treacle, one gallon.

The compound is prepared in the following manner: First steep in Water and strain the tobacco (preferably leaftobacco) so as to make seven gallons of liquid. Pour about three gallons of boiling Water over the senna and Worm-seed. Allow this to stand and cool. Then add the senna and worm-seed to the tobacco. To this compound add the treacle. Then mix them all well together.

To administer the dose, take about two buckets of ground feed-any grain except corn--and stir it in about two thirds of a barrel of Water. Let, this stand for about six hours. Then add myimproved compound and stir the mixture thoroughly, allowing it to stand about five or six hours, when itis ready for use.

The above formula is for one dose for an 0 average herd of swine, (forty head,) and should be repeated one dose every two months.

In some cases I have found it desirable to add to the compound above named one-half pound of glycyrrhiza and five ounces of by 5 drastis, (fluid extract;) but the compound first named is universally beneficial.

I claim as my invention The herein-described medical compound for the prevention of hog cholera, consisting of 4c the combination of tobacco, senna, Wormseed, and treacle-i about the proportions stated.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto subscribed my name.

ROBERT A. WILSON. W'itnesses:

T. F. BU KE, J. K. QUINN. 

